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deliberative

[dih-lib-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey-tiv] / dɪˈlɪb ər ə tɪv, -əˌreɪ tɪv /


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Deliberative process privilege allows US government agencies to withhold documents which reflect decision-making processes, while attorney-client privilege is intended to protect the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

"Deliberative is one thing, but what have you done?"

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023

Senate, known in more innocent times as the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2017

Texas junior Sen. Ted Cruz’s second year in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body didn’t have the soaring climax that his first year did.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2015

Often the Indirect Question represents a Deliberative Subjunctive of the direct discourse; as,— nesciō quid faciam, I do not know what to do.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)




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